Despite its lock on celebrity turnout, the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday rose only slightly from last year, snaring 3.3 million viewers on TNT and 2.8 million more on sister cable network TBS. The combined 6.1 million average was up from last year's 5.9 million, but barely passed NBC's strike-hobbled Golden Globes "announcements," which claimed 6 million on Jan. 13.

Sheldon breaks the bounds of friendship by breaking in on a blind date in a very funny repeat of The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 8:30 ET/PT). Think of that as one more reason to hate the writers' strike: It's depriving this steadily improving show of its chance to become a solid performer the kind of loss the networks seem all too willing to bear and depriving us of the opportunity to watch Jim Parsons turn Sheldon into one of the season's best comic characters.